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Krum United Methodist Church |
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- Mailing
address: Krum UMC, PO Box 266, Krum, TX 76249
- Church
phone: 940-482-3482
- Pastor's
"find me anytime" phone:
940-220-4152
- Church
email: krumchurch@krumumc.org
- Church
Office Hours: Monday/Wednesday, 9:30-5:30
- Church
Calendar may be found here.
- Church
Staff: The pastor is the Rev. Dr. Christy
Thomas. Get full information about the staff here.
- Worship:
9:00 and 11:00 a.m. Full worship information is here.
- Children's
Programming information is here.
- Visitor
Information may be found here.
- Youth
Ministry Information is here
- Online
Contribution information is here.
- E-Newsletter:
sign up here.
- Dare
to Dream information is here.
- Children's
Day Out information is here.
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| Location |
| Krum,
TX, is just north of Denton and is reached by going west
on FM 1173 from I35 or north on Highway 156 from Highway
380. As you drive into Krum from the east, you will see
a sign on the north side of the road saying "Future
Home of Krum UMC!" In January, 2009, construction
will begin on our new
facility with completion anticipated in September,
2008. In the meantime, just keep going west of FM 1173
until you come to the four-way stop at FM 156 and then
go one block further west--the church is on the NW corner
of W. McCart (FM 1173) and 2nd street. |
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| History |
| In
2006, the Krum United Methodist Church celebrated 130
years in service. It was first organized in 1876 on
the land that is now the present day Jackson cemetery.
The purpose of the building was for school and worship
for the community. |
| There
were ten to twelve charter members at the time. In 1891
the schoolhouse was moved to the new town of Krum, and
the Methodists continued to use it until a new church
was erected in 1901. That building was located near present
day Hattie Dyer primary school. |
| Services
were conducted there until 1924 when the basement for
the current building was built. In 1934, the Sanctuary
was added and then in 1975, the addition of the education
wing completed the current structure. |
| Future: |
| Krum
United Methodist Church owns 10 acres on the east side
of Krum at 1001 E. McCart between NorthStar Bank and
the Blanche Dodd Intermediate School. We now Daring
to Dream that we will be able to break ground on
our new facility in March, 2008 with completion anticipated
in November 2008. |
| Currently,
we are spilling out the doors in the present facility.
This is an extremely well balanced congregation with great
mature leadership and many, many young families with lots
of beautiful children and youth. On Sunday mornings, almost
all the education space is needed for the children and
youth, a wonderful problem to have. But it is time to
move and we are all looking forward to taking the next
step so the the Krum United Methodist Church may continue
to play a significant role in Krum and in the surrounding
area. |
| What
will we see in the new facility? |
- The
10,400 square foot facility will have everything on
one level with convenient drop-off and pick-up access
so those with physical challenges will find ease of
entrance and exit.
- A
multi-use worship and meeting space that can accommodate
over 200 people comfortably. The room is designed
with excellent storage capacities so the space can
quickly be turned from worship to fellowship to youth
space to community center as the needs of the moment
require.
- The
creation of a large greeting space where both visitors
and members may gather informally and receive information
about our ministry and mission. Right now, the foyer
to the Sanctuary has about 52 square feet. The new
greeting area will have over 700 square feet and will
be next to the kitchen and offices, facilitating welcome,
coffee and conversation for all coming through our
doors.
- Greatly
expanded restroom facilities that include handicap
access and stalls.
A light and bright nursery area with over 700 square
feet of space (currently, it is 138 square feet).
There will be a quiet crib area for infants, a sink
for hand washing after changing diapers, and a large
room for safe, supervised play and learning activities
for young children during worship and meetings.
- A
youth room with over 650 square feet and easy access
to the multi-use worship space so we can easily accommodate
a youth ministry encompassing up to 200 junior and
senior high students.
- A
children’s classroom wing that has been designed
with state certification requirements in mind so we
can expand our already influential Children’s
Day Out program into a four day a week three and four
year old preschool.
- One
classroom dedicated to the Sunday School needs of
our senior adults, one multi-use classroom/choir room
and the ability to use the conference room at NorthStar
bank for another adult classroom.
- Significantly
improved office space designed for efficiency, growth,
confidential pastoral care, and technological needs.
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| What
do we believe? |
| United
Methodist beliefs and practices are based firmly on the
revealed word of God, the Holy Bible. We practice what
is called the "Wesleyan Quadrilateral" as we
form our Christianity on the Scriptures interpreted by
tradition, reason and experience. |
Here
at Krum UMC, we preach and teach the Holy Scriptures boldly
and with humility. We affirm the historic doctrines of
the church, including the following, as stated in The
Book of Discipline, 2004:
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| With
Christians of other communions we confess belief
in the triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
This confession embraces the biblical witness to God's
activity in creation, encompasses God's gracious self-involvement
in the dramas of history, and anticipates the consummation
of God's reign. |
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created order is designed for the well-being of all creatures
and as the place of human dwelling in covenant with God.
As sinful creatures, however, we have broken that covenant,
become estranged from God, wounded ourselves and one another,
and wreaked havoc throughout the natural order. We
stand in need of redemption. |
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hold in common with all Christians a faith in
the mystery of salvation in and through Jesus Christ.
At the heart of the gospel of salvation is God's incarnation
in Jesus of Nazareth. Scripture witnesses to the redeeming
love of God in Jesus' life and teachings, his atoning
death, his resurrection, his sovereign presence in history,
his triumph over the powers of evil and death, and his
promised return. Because God truly loves us in spite of
our willful sin, God judges us, summons us to repentance,
pardons us, receives us by that grace given to us in Jesus
Christ, and gives us hope of life eternal. |
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share the Christian belief that God's redemptive
love is realized in human life by the activity of the
Holy Spirit, both in personal experience and
in the community of believers. This community is the church,
which the Spirit has brought into existence for the healing
of the nations. |
| Through
faith in Jesus Christ we are forgiven, reconciled to God,
and transformed as people of the new covenant. |
| “Life
in the Spirit” involves diligent use of the means
of grace such as praying, fasting, attending
upon the sacraments, and inward searching in solitude.
It also encompasses the communal life of the church in
worship, mission, evangelism, service, and social witness. |
| We
understand ourselves to be part of Christ's universal
church when by adoration, proclamation, and service
we become conformed to Christ. We are initiated and incorporated
into this community of faith by Baptism, receiving the
promise of the Spirit that re-creates and transforms us.
Through the regular celebration of Holy Communion, we
participate in the risen presence of Jesus Christ and
are thereby nourished for faithful discipleship. |
| We
pray and work for the coming of God's realm and reign
to the world and rejoice in the promise of everlasting
life that overcomes death and the forces of evil. |
| With
other Christians we recognize that the reign of
God is both a present and future reality. The
church is called to be that place where the first signs
of the reign of God are identified and acknowledged in
the world. Wherever persons are being made new creatures
in Christ, wherever the insights and resources of the
gospel are brought to bear on the life of the world, God's
reign is already effective in its healing and renewing
power. |
| We
also look to the end time in which God's work will be
fulfilled. This prospect gives us hope in our
present actions as individuals and as the Church. This
expectation saves us from resignation and motivates our
continuing witness and service. |
| We
share with many Christian communions a recognition
of the authority of Scripture in matters of faith,
the confession that our justification as sinners is by
grace through faith, and the sober realization that the
church is in need of continual reformation and renewal. |
| We
affirm the general ministry of all baptized Christians
who share responsibility for building up the church and
reaching out in mission and service to the world. |
| With
other Christians, we declare the essential oneness
of the church in Christ Jesus. This rich heritage
of shared Christian belief finds expression in our hymnody
and liturgies. Our unity is affirmed in the historic creeds
as we confess one holy, catholic, and apostolic church.
It is also experienced in joint ventures of ministry and
in various forms of ecumenical cooperation. |
| Nourished
by common roots of this shared Christian heritage, the
branches of Christ's church have developed diverse traditions
that enlarge our store of shared understandings. Our
avowed ecumenical commitment as United Methodists is to
gather our own doctrinal emphases into the larger Christian
unity, there to be made more meaningful in a richer whole. |
| If
we are to offer our best gifts to the common Christian
treasury, we must make a deliberate effort as
a church to strive for critical self-understanding.
It is as Christians involved in ecumenical partnership
that we embrace and examine our distinctive heritage. |
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